Anurag Garg wrote:

> Paul Leyland wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 10:12 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
>> 
>>> I agree it's too bad that communities are split like this, but
>>> that's the fault of the webfora crowd, IMHO.
>>> To me, the webfora usability is just way too low. How do you keep
>>> track of 40 or 50 different fora?
> 
> Adding to Paul's comments, you don't need to keep track of 40-50
> different fora.  Only five deal directly with GIMPS. And even then you 
> need to be selective. Also, you can subscribe to individual threads so
> that you receive new posts via email. You can maintain much of the
> flavour of a mailing list that way.

I still can't be bothered.  I simply don't participate in projects whose
primary means of communication is a webforum.  To me, such projects are
not sufficiently mature.  I find it highly unusual that Gimps actually
switched from a mailing list to a forum.  


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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